A Cloud-Based Architecture with embedded Pragmatics Renderer for Ubiquitous and Cloud Manufacturing

The paper presents a Cloud-based architecture for Ubiquitous and Cloud Manufacturing as a multilayer communicational architecture designated as the Communicational Architecture. It is characterised as a rich client interfaces Rich Internet Application with sufficient interaction to allow user agility and competence, b multimodal, for multiple client device classes support and c communicational to allow pragmatics, where human-to-human real interaction is completely supported. The main innovative part of this architecture is sustained by a semiotic framework organised on three main logical levels: a device level, which allows the user ‘to use’ pragmatics with the system, b application level which results for a set of tools which allows users pragmatics-based interaction and c application server level that implements the Pragmatics renderer, a pragmatics supporting engine that supports all pragmatics services. The Pragmatics renderer works as a communication enabler, and consists of a set of integrated collaboration technology that makes the bridge between the user/devices and the ‘system’. A federated or community cloud is developed using a particular cloud RESTful Application Programming Interface that supports cloud services registration, composition and governance pragmatics services behaves as SaaS in the cloud.